Ridgid release 4.3

ELYRIA, OHIO – RIDGID® has launched its 2012 Reputation Roadshow, offering attendees product demonstrations and sneak previews of the company’s latest tools and technologies in the commercial/industrial, digital inspection/locating and pressing markets. The nearly nine-month tour will make 54 stops across 27 U.S. states and four Canadian provinces before concluding in September.

At each show, trade professionals register to experience the industry’s latest innovations in the RIDGID product line. Highlights include visual inspection products, utility locators, drain maintenance and pressing technology. Attendees also receive RIDGID gear, meet a RIDGID calendar model, enjoy lunch and have the opportunity to ask experts about any product in the RIDGID line.

“The RIDGID Roadshow is a great way for trade professionals to see the hottest new products and technologies and see solutions that can help improve their bottom lines,” said David Roberts, Marketing Communications Manager at RIDGID. “It also gives us an opportunity to listen to RIDGID customers, who know firsthand what tools the market needs.”

About RIDGID®
RIDGID®, a leading manufacturer of innovative tools and equipment for the professional trades, markets its products in more than 140 countries. The company’s broad offering of more than 300 types of tools, including RIDGIDConnect™, an online business tool, serves the rental, plumbing, HVAC/R, utility, industrial, electrical, petroleum, institutional, commercial and hardware markets. RIDGID is part of Emerson Commercial & Residential Solutions, a business of Emerson, which brings technology and engineering together to design and produce some of the highest-quality tools and equipment in the world. From wet/dry vacs to the industry’s best-selling pipe diagnostic system, key brands include RIDGID®, KNAACK®, PROTEAM® and WEATHER GUARD®.

About Emerson Emerson (NYSE: EMR), based in St. Louis, Missouri (USA), is a global leader in bringing technology and engineering together to provide innovative solutions for customers in industrial, commercial, and consumer markets around the world. The company is comprised of five business segments: Process Management, Industrial Automation, Network Power, Climate Technologies, and Commercial & Residential Solutions. Sales in fiscal 2011 were $24.2 billion. For more information, visit www.Emerson.com.